Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447313488 ISBN 13: 9781447313489

Publisher: Policy Press, 2015

Synopsis

Under contemporary capitalism the extraction of value from the built environment has escalated, working in tandem with other urban processes to lay the foundations for the exploitative processes of gentrification world-wide.

Global gentrifications: Uneven development and displacement critically assesses and tests the meaning and significance of gentrification in places outside the ‘usual suspects’ of the Global North. Informed by a rich array of case studies from cities in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Southern Europe, and beyond, the book (re)discovers the important generalities and geographical specificities associated with the uneven process of gentrification globally. It highlights intensifying global struggles over urban space and underlines gentrification as a growing and important battleground in the contemporary world.

The book will be of value to students and academics, policy makers, planners and community organisations.

About this title

About the Authors

Loretta Lees is chair of human geography at the University of Leicester, UK.

Hyun Bang Shin is Associate Professor of Geography and Urban Studies in the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ernesto López-Morales is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile.

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447313488
• ISBN 13: 9781447313489
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Lees Loretta, Shin Hyun Bang, López-Morales Ernesto